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AU WHO *EAD READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 48th YEAR, NO. 55. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY8 C&D Board to Meet Monday < At Morehead Biltmore Hotel Morehead Ctty wttl be boat to tbe summer meeting of tbe Board of Conservation and Development Sunday through Tuesday. Tbe board returns alter two years, hav ing held its summer meeting last year at Wilmington. BuiiOMa will actually get under way Monday. The social portion of tbe meeting will start with a so cial hour and buffet dinner at the Dunes Club at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 12. Hosts will be D. G. Bell, chairman of the state commercial fisheries committee and the town of Morehead City. Miles J. Smith, first vice-chair man of the board, will preside at the business sessions. At 8:30 a.m. Monday in the Sea Level room of the Morehead BUtmore hotel the Rev. Charles L. Kirby, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Morehead City, will give the invo cation. Dr. Ben F. Royal, Morehead City, will welcome tbe board. W. Eugene Simmons will respond. Among the guests to be recognized will be John Reeves, chairman of the State Ports Authority, which also will meet later at the com mercial fisheries building. During the general business ses sion, scheduled to begin at 8:45, reports will be given by the fol lowing: William P. Saunders, di rector; J. Edgar Kirk, assistant di rector; Charles Parker, advertis ing; Walter W. Harper, commercc and industry; C. G. Holland, com mercial fisheries. Col. Harry E. Brown, hurricane rehabilitation; F. H. Claridge, for estry; Jasper L. Stuckey, mineral resources; Thomas W. Morse, parks, and Col. B. C. Snow, water resources, inlets and coastal water ways. The board will lend its ears to the public at 9:45, hearing any patter within its jurisdiction. The meeting will end at 10 and (he following committees will meet at 10:1S: advertising, in the Sea Level room; subcommittee for pro cessing and packaging food, prod ucts, east mezzanine; and water resources, inlets and coastal water ways, east room next to the dining room. The board will lunch Monday aboard the USCG training ship, IJnimak, which will -be in local waters next week. Committees which will meet Monday afternoon will be commer cial fisheries, mineral resources, parks, and forestry. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Barns, Kin ston, will entertain the board at a social hour and buffet dinner at the Coral Bay Club at 8:30 Monday night. The commerce and industry and community planning committees will meet Tuesday morning. The Morehead City chamber of com merce will be host at lunch at 12:30 at the Morehead City Country Club. At the final business session Tuesday afternoon, reports will be heard from the following commit tees: advertising, commerce and industry, commercial fisheries, community planning, forestry, min eral resources, parks, and water resources, inlets and coastal water ways. Members of the board are Gov. Luther Hodges, chairman; Mr. Smith, Salisbury, first vice-chair man; W. J. Damtoft, Asheville, second vice-chairman; Charles S. Allen, Durham; W. B. Austin, Jef ferson, Mr. Bell, Morehead City. r. J. Holing, SUer City; H. C. Buchan Jr., North Wilkesboro; Scroop W. Enloe Jr., Spruce Pine; Voit Gilmore, Southern Pines; Amos R. Kearns, High Point; H. C. Kennett, Durham; R. W. Martin, Raleigh. Lorimer W. Midgett, Elizabeth City; Hugh M. Morton, Wilming ton; Mr. Simmons, Tarboro, and Max Watson, Spindale. Two meabers of the board who died recently were Robert M. Hanes, Winston-Salem, and Leo H. Harvey, Kinston. Board Selects Pupil Insurer The county board of education. In session Monday, voted to con tinue carrying school pupil insur ance with the Walker Insurance Agency of Charlotte. The fee will be 11.75 per pupil, if the parents wish to carry the insurance, an increase o I to cents over last year. Tbe maximum pay able under the new policy la $3,500, as compared with a $2,500 maxi mum last year. According to H. L. Joslyn, coun ty superintendent of schools tbe C. R. Wheatly family at Beaufort collected the full amount on the iaauraaea policy thia year, Men Edward Wheatly waa injured by a car oakis way home from school. The education board fixed the pay date far teachers during UM ?l on the Mth of each month with the exception at tbe last month when teachers jjre^paid only after Ferry Landing Sites This sketch hy J. A. DuBois, Morehead City chamber of commerce mani|erk shows where the proposed Atlantic -Ocrscoke car-passenger ferry will iaad at Atlaatic. Dan Taylor, who with his three brothers will operate the ferry, said Saturday that the first run of the ferry will he Labor Day, Sept. 7. Newport Mayor Names Officials For Current Term Mayor Leon Mann Jr., Newport, made appointments for the coming two years at the town board meet ing Tuesday night at the town hall. Wilbur Carner was appointed mayor pro-tem and fire commis sioner; Leslie Bercegeay was named sanitation supervisor (gar bage, mosquito control), recrea tion officer and town representative in the community development as sociation. John Kelly was reappointed street commissioner; B. R. Gar ner, water commissioner and su pervisor of equipment and pur chases; Dick Lockey, administra tion commissioner and police com missioner; Miss Edith Lockey, town clerk and treasurer. Junius Creech, water department administrator; George Ball, town attorney; and the following plan ning commissioners: Mr. Berce geay, chairman; Mrs. Floy Garn er, R. L. Pruit, R. L. Fleming Jr., and Dalton B. Rhue. The board anthorized Josiah Bai ley to do the town audit, providing it can be finished in less than six months. The street commissioner was asked to investigate a drain age problem at Roy T. Garner's and the board authorized purchase of marl for spreading on the east side of the railroad, preparatory to paving. The board authorized payment of $5 to A. L. Wilson, for administer ing the oath of office to new town officials. The mayor said he be lieves that Eastover Court may be paved within the next several weeks, depending on when the state paving crew gets in town. Miss Lockey reported a balance in the general fund July 1 of {1,003. After June bills were ordered paid the balance was approximately |200. Port Calendar Bahia Santiago de Cuba ? Due today to load cargo of grain. Southerland ? Due Wednesday to pick up cargo of tobacco for Europe. Rita Maersk ? Due July 17 to load tobalce for the Far Cast. The irht item the eatraace to Silver Late at Ocracote. The ferry will eater the lake and proceed to Us dock to boat of the Silver Lake Ian. Citizens Appear at Board Meeting to Protect Library A large number of people ap peared before the Beaufort town board Mooday night to request that the county library be given WOO in 1950-60. In the proposed budget, this item had been eliminated. Mrs. W. L. Woodard, a member of the library board, remarked that a library is most essential if the town is interested in attracting people and new industry. (The li brary board says that elimination of the $600 item would mean that the library would have to close be cause there would be no money available to pay personnel). Others speaking in favor of funds for the library were Mrs. Charles W. Davis, Dr. John Vera berg, and Mrs. John Brooks. Among those attending the meet ing were Mrs. M. L. Davis, Charles W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Moore, Mrs. Edward Arlington. Miss Amy Male, Miss Annie Morton, Mrs. E. U. Potter, Mrs. C. R. Whcatly and Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Brown. Later, C. R. Whcatly Jr., town attorney, offered (600 of his 1000 annual salary to the library. The mayor and board accepted the of fer, contingent upon finding the funds elsewhere to meet library ex pense. TV prspsssd lK*-a budget was discussed. Dan Walker said that the auditor from Williams and Wall is expected to be bere In sev eral week*. Several of Ute cos* misaioners questioned the advisa bility of making up a budget with out an audit of the previous year. They were told that an audit would not be available (or several months and law requires that the budget be adopted by July 28. Mr. Wheatly asked Mr. Walker if the town had operated on a budget last year. Mr. Walker said it had. Mayor Potter said that the bud get proposed is a cut of $21, OtO from the previous year's budget, lie recommended that meeting of the bonded indebtedness be the first objective of the board during the coming year. The mayor advised the board that Harold Simpson's request rela tive to leasing Beaufort property at Lennoxvilie need be considered no longer, since Mr. Simpson has acquired property north of the Beaufort bridge on the west side of Gallants channel. The mayor requested the pqlicc commissioner to make a traffic check, invite motorists to do busi ness in Beaufort and check on whether the cars have Beaufort town tags. The clerk was authorised to write the state utilities commission rela tive to the Beaufort and More bead railroad contract with the town. Mayor Potter suggested that if the railroad is not living up te its con tract that the railroad be asked te track, getting it off The mayor recommended that the (ire commissioner carry out an inspection of all buildings in the (ire district. He suggested that furniture be rearranged in the town hall and a private conference room provided. It was announced that the League of Municipalities would hold its 50th meeting at Ashcville Sept. 27-29. The mayor anno?Ked that he had received an application for position as police officcr from Wil liam Blades Lewis. He suggested that commissioner Hamilton start making plans for celebration of Beaufort's 250th anniversary. Beau fort was founded in 1708. Mayor Potter said that he has learned through correspondence with Army engineers that there are no more obstacles in the way of the project calling for widening Beaufort harbor. Friar to the new officials' being sworn in, former commissioner Gerald Hill gave the fire depart ment report for June. Commis sioner Math Chaplain gave the po lice department report and the street and public works report was presented. Commissioner James Rumlcy, as well as other former commission ers, was present. Commissioner Otis Mades was abaemt. Oaths a I office am administer ed by A. H. James, dcrfc ct su perior court. Three New Commissioners Vofe in New Clerk , Attorney Gifts Presented Mayor W. H. Potter personally presented Rifts to town officials leaving office Monday night. The watch he is shown giving retiring mayor C. T. Lewis, above, was engraved with the mayor's name and years of his term of office, 1953-59. Outgoing commissioners were given engraved silver cuff links and tie clasp. Four Jaycees Go To New Bern Four members of the Morchead City Jaycees announced Monday night their plans to attend the dis trict setup meeting in New Bern which opened Wednesday. The four attending the meeting were Tommy Bennett, Donald Davis, state director; Cliff Lynch, inter nal vice-president; and L. E, Kel ly, external vice-president. In other business Monday night at the Blue Ribbon restaurant P. H. Geer Jr., was named chairman of the Mix North Carolina Social that the Jaycees will stage Wed nesday night, July 22. The social will be in honor of Mias North Carolina who will spend a week in Carteret County as guest of the Jaycees. Present plans call for the event to be held at the Morchead City Country Club. The Jaycees met last night with the school board to discuss the football program for the year. After the meeting Monday night, members went to Atlantic Beach for their weekly miniature golf matches. The team of L. G. Dunn was victorious over Dr. Russell Outlaw's team which had won the previous week. Report Sent Out The Morchead City chamber of commerce sent to its members this week a report on its activities for the first six months of this year. Expenses for the period totaled ti, 635.68. Tide Table Tides at tke Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, July 1* 11:24 a.m. 4:58 a.m. 11:21 p.m. 5:02 p.m. Saturday, July 11 12:09 a.m. 5:35 a.m. 5:51 p.m. Sunday, July 12 12:12 a.m. 6:21 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 7:01 p.m. Monday, July 11 1:06 a.m. 7:24 a.m. 1:51 p.m. 8:25 p.m. Tuesday, July 14 2:04 a.m. 8:38 a.m. 2:51 p.m. 9:36 p.m. Senate Committee Okays Port Fund Mayor George Dill, Morehcad City, announced yesterday that the Senate waterways committee okayed Wednesday, in the Sen ate Public Works appropriation bill, $600,000 for Morehead City harbor improvements. The amount requested for the entire project, deepening the har bor and widening the turning ba sin, was $1,370,000. The amount was not included in the House appropriations bill. Although $600,000 is not enough to do the work needed, mayor Dill said he was encouraged and it may pro vide enough money to deepen the channel, if the bill does not draw a Presidential veto. Dunes Club Elects Directors Dr. Ben Royal, Morehead City; Roland McClamroeh, Chapel Hill, and Miss Dorothy Hutaff, Fayette viUe, have been elected to the board of directors of the Dunes Club. They replace D. G. Bell, More hcad City; W. Exum, Snow Hill, and William S. Page, Kinston. Other directors arc Bud Dixon Morehead City, president of the club; Dr. E. A. Raspberry, Snow Hill; David Morris, New Bern; Earl Thompson, Goldsboro; and Mrs. Horton Doughton, Statesvillc. Ninety attended the annual stock holders meeting recently, at which the directors were chosen. The club now has a membership of 14S. It is free of debt, according to president Dixon, and plans arc un derway for redecorating and re furnishing the ballroom next year. The Dunes Club is located off the Fort Macon Road, just cast of Oceanana Resort. Board Meets The Beaufort town board met yesterday morning and discussed expansion of the town limiti. The clerk, Ronald Earl Mason, has made application for $25,000 surety bond. Mayor W. H. Potter says the board will next meet on the first Monday in August. Beaufort Government Undergoes Turnover After firing Din Walker, town clerk, and Gene Smith, town at torney, Beaufort's town board Mon day night decided to meet in special session to consider plans for incorporating areas adjacent to the town and to give final approv al to the budget. The date for the special meeting has not yet been set. Named as town clerk was Ron ald Earl Mason, former Jaycce president and insurance agent. Mr. Mason said Wednesday that he will devote full time to the town clerk's job. Mayor W. H. Potter later in the meeting expressed hope that each commissioner will operate his own department rather than have the departments operated from the town hall as has been done in the past. C. R. Whcatly Jr. was named town attorney. Both Mr. Wheatly and Mr. Mason won their offices by a vote of 3 to 2. Voting in favor of them were three commission ers who were on one slate headed by J. O. Barbour Jr. in the May election: Bert Brooks, Billy Davis and Dr. David Farrior. Voting in favor of Mr. Walker and Mr. Smith were the two re elected commissioners, W. R. Ham ilton and Math Chaplain. Mayor Potter had recommended that Mr. Walker and Mr. Smith be retain ed. When Mr. Brooks nominated Mr. Mason as clerk, Mr. Hamilton mov ed that the matter be tabled. His motion did not carry. By the same 3-2 vote that defeated the tabling motion, Mr. Mason was named clerk. After a parliamentary procedure hassle when nominations were re quested for town attorney, Mr. Wheatly was named attorney. Gerald Woolard, without debate, became building inspector and di rector of Civil Defense. Named to the zoning board were D. F. Mer rill, chairman, Earl Mason, Hol den Ballou. Gilbert Potter and James H. Davis. Named to the planning board were Odell Merrill, chairman; H. D. Paul, O. S. Clawson, Vic Bella mah, Mrs. Carl Hatscll and George Herbert. On the harbor and planning com mission arc J. O. Barbour Jr., H. G. Simpson, Charles L. Davis, David Bevcridge and George Brooks. J. G. Hassell was named the town engineer and Mr. Brooks as mayor pro tem. Mayor Potter rec ommended commissioner Brooks for that position because, he said, he was "high man" on the ticket in the May election. Three Local Men In Unimak Crew Three men from this area, F. C. Hoggard, Ocracokc, W. L. Mldgett, Harkcrs Island, and Charles L. Freck, Morchcad City, arc mem bers of the crew of the Unimak, Coast Guard training ship that will be here this weekend. The 311-foot Unimak is a float ing classroom for Coast Guard re servists. Its complement is 12 of ficers, 75 enlisted men and a hun dred reserve trainees. Commanding officer is Cdr. Bern hard R. Henry of Annapolis, Md. Rear Adm. P. V. Colmar will entertain members of the Board of Conservation and Development, the State Ports Authority and other dignitaries at luncheon aboard the .Unimak at 12:30 p. m. Monday. , Big Attendance Expected at Press Meeting July 16 A record-breaking attcndancc at the North Carolina Press Associa tion Convention in Morehead City Friday through Saturday is pre dicted by Miss Beatrice Cobb, exe cutive secretary of the association. Headquarters for the convention will be the Morehead Biltmore Ho tel. The NCPA banquet Thursday night will open the convention. During the business session, offi cers will be elected. The newspa per people will go to Cherry Point at 4 Friday afternoon where they will tour the base and have dinner at the officers club. John I Anderson, president of the association, will preside at the bus iness session Saturday morning. Meetings of daily and weekly groups have been scheduled for Friday afternoon. Much free time has been allow ed to permit the group'*" full en joyment of Carteret's recreation facilities. This is the first meeting of the North Carolina Press Association in this county since 1946 when the association met at Atlantic Beach. Insurance Agents Convene Here Federated Mutual, an implement and hardware insurance company, closed a three-day sales meeting at the Morehead Biltmore Motel Wed nesday. Salesmen from the eaatern dis trict. which includes Greensboro and the area east of it, attended a banquet at the hotel, went on a deep sea fishing trip, and played golf at the country club. Trophies were presented the three top salesmen for 1958. They are H. G. Holt of Durham, E. L. Clark of Greenville, and C. H. Owen of Fayetteville. Among those attending were C. I. Buxton, president; A. W. Kicsner, division manager; P. R. Ashby, sales manager; and D. M. Robin son, underwriting manager for the mid-Atlantic division, which in cludes North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Five Inches Rain Falls in Two Weeks After receiving more than an inch and a half of rain June 2t to break the recent drouth, the coun ty has jot ten an additional 2.59 inches since the first of July. The two-week total is now an even five inches. Temperature ranges since the first of the month, as recorded by Stamey Davis, Morehead City weather observer, were as follows: Hlgk Low Wind July 1 M 72 sw July 2 M 73 SW July 3 85 72 NE July 4 82 67 NE July ( 80 71 NE July ? 81 72 SW July I 80 72 NE July I 82 74 NE t Coast Guard Ship Open to Public
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